Abrahm DeVine

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rdf:langString Abrahm DeVine

rdf:langString Abrahm DeVine

rdf:langString Seattle, Washington, U.S.

rdf:langString Stanford University Cardinal

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rdf:langString * Cascade Swim Club,

rdf:langString • International Swimming League's DC Trident

rdf:langString • Lakeside Lions,

rdf:langString • Team Elite

rdf:langString American

rdf:langString Abrahm David DeVine (born September 3, 1996) is an American swimmer from Seattle, Washington. He currently represents the LA Current which is part of the International Swimming League. His first international competition was in the men's 200 metre Individual Medley (IM) event at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships held in Budapest, Hungary. In 2017, as a member of the U.S. FINA World Championships team he finished tenth in the 200 IM. In his junior season at Stanford he became a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) champion in the 400 IM, he was named the Pac-12 Conference Swimmer of the Year. In 2018, DeVine placed second in the 200 IM at U.S. Summer Nationals, which qualified him for the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships In Tokyo, Japan where he finished fifth. In 2018, he came out as gay, one of "very few openly gay swimmers competing on the elite level." In his senior year at Stanford he again was NCAA champion in the 400 IM, he was also named a member of Team U.S.A. for the 2018-19 season. In 2019, he placed eighth in the IM at the FINA World Championships held in Gwangju, South Korea. As of April 2019, he is a fifteen-time All-American. In May 2019 Swimming World listed him as twelfth in its ranking of NCAA men's swimmers in Division I. In September 2019, DeVine says he was dropped from the Stanford team due to homophobia which team coaches denied in a statement which did not include why they took the action. As of June 2019, DeVine has been with International Swimming League's DC Trident.

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